The Department of Chemistry invites you to its departmental seminar today, February 9, at 4:10 p.m. in Fulmer Hall, room 438.
Dr. Jeff Terry from the Illinois Institute of Technology will present, Monitoring Radiation Damage in Material For Accident-Tolerant Nuclear Fuels.
The explosions at Fukushima were the direct result of interactions between water and the Zr cladding on the fuel that led to the production of hydrogen gas at high temperature. A large research effort to develop accident tolerant fuels for use in light water reactors has been undertaken to attempt to develop fuels that are safer under accident conditions. Our research group has looked at potential claddings such as ZrC, ZrN, and SiC. Specifically, we are using synchrotron radiation techniques to collect data that can be used by modelers to evaluate the performance of reactor components in extreme environments (temperature, neutron flux, chemistry). In our lab, we are growing materials, then studying their behavior under these extreme conditions. We work with theorists to adjust models to better predict the experimental results. This talk will focus on ZrC and SiC that may be used in TRISO fuel applications.
Contact: Chelsea (Pickett) Gao, chelsea.m.pickett@wsu.edu.
